Fantasy view of the ruins of a castle on a river, with a barge crossing the ford
Drawing
Not currently on display at the V&A
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Landscape, Fantasy view of the ruins of a castle on a river, with a barge crossing the ford. A ruined building beyond the river, having a watch-tower surmounted by a weather-cock; on the left, in the foreground, is a sailing barge transporting a horse-drawn caravan; Pen, slightly tinted with bistre and neutral tint, on paper.
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| Materials and Techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown and grey wash; double framing line in brown ink. Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink, <i>j: stelling</i><i>werf</i>; and inscribed above this, also in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), <i>437</i>; on verso, along lower edge, by Esdaile, in brown ink,<i> Greffier Fagels colln 1799 WE P96</i> (altered to <i>P97</i>) <i>N80</i>. Inscribed on old mount, in pencil: at lower right, by Dyce, <i>Stellingwerf</i>; and to the right of this, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), <i>140</i>. |
| Brief Description | Houbraken, Antonina; Fantasy view of the ruins of a castle on a river, with a barge crossing the ford. A ruined building beyond the river, having a watch-tower surmounted by a weather-cock; on the left, in the foreground, is a sailing barge transporting a horse-drawn caravan; Pen, slightly tinted with bistre and neutral tint, on paper; Dutch School; 17th century. |
| Physical Description | Landscape, Fantasy view of the ruins of a castle on a river, with a barge crossing the ford. A ruined building beyond the river, having a watch-tower surmounted by a weather-cock; on the left, in the foreground, is a sailing barge transporting a horse-drawn caravan; Pen, slightly tinted with bistre and neutral tint, on paper. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: Griffier François Fagel the elder (1659–1746), The Hague; presumably his nephew, Griffier Hendrick Fagel the elder (1706–90), The Hague; his grandson, Griffier Hendrick Fagel the younger (1765–1838), The Hague and London, the family sale [François Fagel the elder], London, T. Philipe, 20–5 May 1799, possibly lot 463: ‘Fifteen landscapes––six in bistre––neat small views––the rest ruined castles––all in Holland’ (bt. for £0. 5s. 0d.);1 William Esdaile (1758–1837), London (L. 2617 at upper right), his sale, London, Christie’s, 18–25 June 1840, lot 837: ‘Stellingwerf. A pair of river-scenes, with a chateau and a ferry-boat, in bistre’ (to ‘Sheath’ for £0. 3s. 0d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
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| Bibliographic Reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. I, cat.88, p.136 |
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| Accession Number | DYCE.437 |
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| record created | June 8, 2009 |
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